Top 100 Catch Quotes
#1. The metaphor I've used is ... somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won't be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets.
Randy Pausch
#2. The Holy Trinity doesn't need our permission to carry on in their endlessly resourceful work of making all things new. That we are invited to catch even a glimpse of the splendor is grace. All of it, every breath and every second is grace.
Rachel Held Evans
#3. The catch word is equilibrium again, informed the field what are conventional weapons or nuclear weapons of different qualities. You cannot make up for a actual or perceived disequilibrium in the conventional field by having more nuclear weapons.
Helmut Schmidt
#4. And I wasn't convinced that it was a good idea, sort of like asking for advice on how to catch a baseball in your teeth or pick all the cheese off your cheeseburger.
Raymond Chen
#5. Few things concentrate the mind more efficiently than the necessity of saying what you mean. It brings you face to face with what you are talking about, what you are actually proposing. It gets you away from the catch phrases that not merely substitute for thought but preclude it.
Edwin Newman
#6. The moment I finish 'any' book, my feels are pretty much the same. Goes a little something like this: It's done? Whimper. Tears of joy. Oh, my back. Relief! Shower! Food! Sleep! Oh, my back. You mean I get to catch up on my favorite TV shows? Tears of joy. Oh, my back.
Gena Showalter
#7. When somebody you love dies, you want the world to just stop, but it doesn't ... everything keeps going, and so it's up to you to catch the moment ... to savor that time ... years ago when you ran hand in hand down the hill with your sister.
Wes Adamson
#8. I stepped away from the car preparing my own smile because you catch more flies with honey than you do with shit.
Bruce Blake
#9. I know that I may not always get a hit or may not always catch the ball, but I'm going to damn sure try.
Cliff Floyd
#10. I began to see why woman-haters could make such fools of women. Woman-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock full of power. They descended, and then they disappeared. You could never catch one.
Sylvia Plath
#11. If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor', I beg you to slap me.
Johnny Depp
#12. Spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.
Neil Gaiman
#13. Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
James Thurber
#14. The local fisherfolk were tying up for the night and crying the day's catch, but
George R R Martin
#15. Catch my eye,tell me what you see
Wonder if they could guess it about me
Here i'm standing in a double life
One with love,one with strife
Try to act normal,and play it cool
So afraid of breaking a rule
But now i'm falling to hard to stop
Can't help but take the next drop
Alexandra Monir
#16. I'm a hypochondriac. Before I go all the way, I send the girl to the doctor and check them for everything. My doctor has a test to tell if you're going to catch something in the future even.
Brett Ratner
#17. The audience is smart and catch on pretty quick when they are sold the same old thing.
Ehren Kruger
#18. I would like to write you so simply, so simply, so simply. Without having anything ever catch the eye, excepting yours alone, ... so that above all the language remains self-evidently secret, as if it were being invented at every step, and as if it were burning immediately
Jacques Derrida
#19. But ah, to fish with a worm, and then not catch your fish! To fail with a fly is no disgrace: your art may have been impeccable, your patience faultless to the end. But the philosophy of worm-fishing is that of results, of having something tangible in your basket when the day's work is done.
Bliss Perry
#20. I'd catch moonlight in a bottle, if we could drink a toast to happiness.
Toby Keith
#21. Fish are a renewable resource, and one of the problems we've had is people feel obliged to catch the limit, then throw 'em in the garbage can.
Norman Schwarzkopf
#22. An eagle can catch a fish in the ocean of impossibility because he pursues and focuses on only one fish.
Debasish Mridha
#23. I've been alone with him countless times, but this feels different. Here there are no eyes waiting to catch us, no voices waiting to shout at us, no hands ready to tear us apart
just miles and miles of space. It's exciting and terrifying at the same time.
Lauren Oliver
#24. I have a little pocket Bible that I have with me all the time in my briefcase, and so usually in the mornings, sometimes on the campaign bus or plane, I always try to catch some time to do that regularly.
Mike Huckabee
#25. Sometimes you have to move on without certain people. If they're meant to be in your life, they'll catch up.
Mandy Hale
#26. To know him
If you want to know his heart, pay close attention to what angers him.
If you want to know his mind, listen for the words that linger in his silence.
If you want to know his soul, look to where his eyes are when you catch him smiling.
Lang Leav
#27. Unless you paddle for the wave, you'll never know if you could catch it. But once you do ... Ride it as long as you can. Love as long as you can.
Abigail Spencer
#28. The moment when you realise that you are stupid, you catch your best chance to be clever!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#29. That's one of the great things about DVD: In addition to reaching people who didn't catch the movie in theaters, you get to have this interaction of sorts.
Harold Ramis
#30. Chin up. There are other fish in the sea. It's a big ocean. Sometimes we need to catch and release a few before we find the keeper.
Kasie West
#31. This is my moment, this is my chance to make a difference, and you know, I just went for the ball, I attacked it, and I went and got it, ... I was gonna catch that ball, regardless of what happens ...
Santana Moss
#32. Don't worry," he smiled, pulling me into the hard warmth of his chest. "I've got you. I'll always catch you when you fall.
S.L. Jennings
#33. Sometimes, when you catch someone unaware at just the right time and in just the right light, you can catch sight of what they will be.
Jennifer Donnelly
#34. Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch their judgments, such as they are.
Lord Chesterfield
#35. Cats are like Baptists. You know they raise hell, but you can never catch them at it.
James Patterson
#36. Don't even think about it.
You'll never catch that big fish with your small hook.
Phil Wohl
#37. When I was a little kid, of course, I was brown all summer. That's because I was free as a bird- nothing to do but catch bugs all day.
Roy Blount Jr.
#38. Mammograms are really sort of a gift. You can either catch something early or count your lucky stars because nothing was discovered. Either way, you're ahead of the game.
Charlotte Ross
#39. I intend to study love as well as medicine, for it is one of the most mysterious and remarkable diseases that afflict mankind, and the best way to understand it is to have it. I may catch it someday, and then I should like to know how to treat and cure it.
- Mac (Rose In Bloom)
Louisa May Alcott
#40. Staying in the present is the key to any golfer's game: once you start thinking about a shot you just messed up or what you have to do on the next nine to catch somebody, you're lost.
Paul Azinger
#41. Scared by the noise, Millie looked down at her brothers. Then she held out both arms and Tom's stomach turned cold. She was going to jump to him, like she did from the back of the sofa. She was going to jump, confident that he'd catch her, like he always did.
Sharon Bolton
#42. For women the wage gap sets up an infuriating Catch-22 situation. They do the housework because they earn less, and they earn lessbecause they do the housework.
Sylvia Ann Hewlett
#43. The best that can happen is that someone can catch a glimpse of the glory you're hinting at.
Rich Mullins
#44. Your boyfriend's real fuckin' nice. What a cutie. I heart the fuck out of him. What a catch.
C.M. Stunich
#45. I was scared to death, but I made fear score points for me. Fear is right behind me, fear is six inches off my back, that's where fear is. I can feel its presence. But it's not going to catch me ... I'm going to take fear and use it to my advantage.
Bruce Jenner
#46. I'm a Buddhist. You might have a Christian obligation to catch pneumonia while you sit for two and a half hours listening to some twerp in a dress drone on about the virtue of wedded life but, dear as you are to me, I don't.
Natasha Pulley
#47. We waited until we perfected the dog food, and then we worked on the cat food. Even though it's not going through the roof the way the dog food is, I think it will catch on eventually.
Dick Van Patten
#48. Then his voice resonates over the speakers again. 'A good friend helped me find these lyrics again, and I told her if she ever fell, I'd be there to catch her. She told me if I ever sang this song like I just did, it'd be a success. Well, I'm keeping up my end of the deal.
P.K. Hrezo
#49. There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football.
Victor Cruz
#50. Illium grinned, unrepentant. "Want to try again? I'll move extra slow - you are both so much older, after all." The last words were a conspiratorial whisper.
Galen glanced at Raphael. "How has he survived this long?"
"No one can catch him.
Nalini Singh
#51. The early bird might catch the worm, but I bet it also needs a ton of under eye concealer
Nicole Richie
#52. I run fast. I run far. I run in the hopes that nothing will ever catch up.
Katie McGarry
#53. Anglers may be divided into almost as many genera and species as the fish they catch, and engage in the sport from as many impulses.
Thaddeus Norris
#54. Pointing fingers, trying to catch each other in scandal does not bring honor to this House.
Mark Foley
#55. What's wrong, little sis? You look upset."
She could barely catch her breath. "Cracked ... my ... nail polish slapping your ... worthless face. See?" She showed him her finger - just one of them.
"Cute" He snorted.
Cassandra Clare
#56. Hitler is the human catch-all for all other terrible humans.
Chuck Klosterman
#57. It's nice, when fishing, to catch a fish. But it doesn't really matter if you don't. What you always catch is a quiet time sitting at the water's edge, or in a gently rocking boat, a silent time of water and sky and the movement of natural things.
Ruth Rudner
#58. Trying is a mentality; it drains and depletes. When you catch yourself trying next time, simply drop the trying and get to it.
Sue Ziang
#59. Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.
Anatole France
#60. You catch more flies with honey, ever heard of that?" He shrugged. "I don't like flies. They're annoying." He grinned "I'd rather catch hell.
Heather Hildenbrand
#61. When you get a cat to catch the mice in your kitchen, you can't expect it to ignore the rats in the cellar.
Philip Kerr
#62. People are so busy chasing happiness- if they would slow down and turn around, they would give it a chance to catch up with them.
Harold S. Kushner
#63. My heart shoots into my throat every time I think I see his loping walk, or catch sight of some floppy brown hair on a boy - but it's never him, and each time it isn't, my heart does a reverse trajectory down into the very pit of my stomach.
Lauren Oliver
#64. Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.
Pope John Paul II
#65. Go into the building, search out the Returned who lives in it, and run around in circles squeaking as loudly as you can. Don't let anybody catch you. Oh, and destroy as much furniture as you can.
Brandon Sanderson
#66. But when she finally did look up, I realized my fatal mistake. That by not leaping for her when she jumped, she thought that I no longer wanted to catch her.
Shelly Crane
#67. Can't you understand that I'd much rather help catch him that sit around waiting for him to pounce?
Robert Galbraith
#68. That's kind of the point of being stealthy. And if he doesn't catch you, then you're not doing anything wrong, are you?" That sounded true. That sounded very true!
Tui T. Sutherland
#69. You won't catch me driving a race car that I have built.
Colin Chapman
#70. Nobody," he said, "has put in a good day's fishing unless he leaves a couple of flies hanging on the bushes. You can't catch fish if you don't dare go where they are." "Let
Norman Maclean
#71. Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound.
Milan Kundera
#72. As a child, I used to spend nearly all my summer holidays with my aunt in Wales, and we used to catch mackerel in a boat and then cook them on board.
Mary Quant
#73. Catch on fire with enthusiasm, and people will come for miles to watch you burn
Jo Ann Butler
#75. These word-stringers make nothing, grow nothing, kill no enemies, catch no fish, and raise no cattle. They just take silver in exchange for words, which are free anyway. It is a clever trick, but in truth they are about as much use as priests.
Bernard Cornwell
#76. Love means leaving yourself vulnerable, knowing that there is someone to catch you when you fall. ~ Mercy
Patricia Briggs
#77. There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
Harold Macmillan
#78. You run and you run to catch up to the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again.
Roger Waters
#79. His cottage in Gweedore was made completely out of turf. This puzzled me, as a turf fire burned constantly in the grate, and I could never understand why the entire cottage didn't catch fire.
Arthur Mathews
#80. Legend holds that seesaws became popular with girls because on the upswing they were able to catch a glimpse of the world beyond their cloistered walls.
Alan Brennert
#81. If you fainted, I would catch you, my Lady Scandalous, he murmured.
Maya Rodale
#82. A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
Ovid
#84. You'll pardon me gentlemen if I make the fight short. I have a train to catch.
Sam Langford
#85. It takes a unique woman to see me as any sort of catch.
Moby
#86. I spent 39 days in the Amazon, and I could not even find a fish to catch.
Jenna Morasca
#87. We danced too wild, and we sang too long, and we hugged too hard, and we kissed too sweet, and howled just as loud as we wanted to howl, because by now we were all old enough to know that what looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.
Pearl Cleage
#88. Fly fishing is the most beautiful way of trying to catch a fish; not the most efficient, just as ballet is the most beautiful way of moving the body between between two points, not the most direct. Fly fishing is to fishing as ballet is to walking.
Howell Raines
#89. Men, for the most part, like to pursue women. We like not knowing if we can catch you. We feel rewarded when we do. Especially when the chase is a long one.
Greg Behrendt
#90. IF YOU CHASE TWO RABBITS ... YOU WILL NOT CATCH EITHER ONE. RUSSIAN PROVERB
Anonymous
#91. I think life is so difficult to catch, it's so furtive, that a copy, a film, can in no way catch it and represent it.
Abbas Kiarostami
#92. I thought that was the coolest thing in the world, the idea of somebody trying to solve mysteries. I would see conspiracies in everything. I think I believed in leprechauns longer than any of my fellow classmates because I tried to catch them.
Alex Hirsch
#94. The corpse's hand reached up and grabbed Shaisam by the throat. He gasped, thrashing, as the corpse opened its eye.
"There's an odd thing about disease I once heard, Fain," Matrim Cauthon whispered. "Once you catch a disease and survive, you can't get it again.
Robert Jordan
#95. If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it's because you have a spiritual problem.
Craig Groeschel
#96. I don't think LeBron will win 5 rings, it's gonna be hard for him to catch up to Kobe.
Skylar Diggins
#97. A couple of months ago I went fishing with a buddy of mine, we pulled his boat into the dock, I lifted up this big 'ol stringer of bass and this idiot on the dock goes, Hey, y'all catch all them fish? Nope - Talked 'em into giving up. Here's your sign.
Bill Engvall
#98. When you have been in TV and performing for as long as I have, you realise that you probably entertain in your sleep too ... as for my catch phrase, I didn't actually say so much 'Can you see what it is yet?
Rolf Harris
#99. He continues to smile expectantly. I take a step back. I don't want to catch whatever he has. He is a disturbing out-of-uniform Santa.
Augusten Burroughs
#100. One of the things Thich Nhat Hanh taught me: he says, "When you're in a hurry, go slower." That works every time, unless you're trying to catch a plane.
Sandra Cisneros
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